Athenaeus Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

3 Famous Quotes by Athenaeus
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“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathaena.”
Age Quotes
Source: Deipnosophists (XIII, 46)
“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
Age Quotes
Source: Deipnosophists (XIII, 46)
“I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.”
Storms Quotes
Source: Deipnosophistoe (VIII, 19), Dorian, a flutist, ridiculing Timotheos, a zither player, who imitated a